people’s participation. Energy was given priority with 26.6% of the outlay. Further‚ Self-sufficiency in agricultural production was a top priority since most of the population depended on that. The 8th Five Year Plan targeted a GDP growth rate of 5.6%. Achievements of the planned targets show that the 8th Five Year Plan had been more successful. Self sufficiency in food grains was achieved. Production of food grains increased
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On 21 May 2009‚ President Obama delivered a speech at the National Archives in response to stiff resistance from Congress concerning his intention to close the Guantanamo Bay centre. During his speech‚ Obama‚ who strongly defended his counterterrorism policies‚ made it clear: “rather than keeping us safer‚ the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security.” Keeping the detention centre open was “a rallying cry” for terrorists‚ making it easier for them to recruit more fighters‚ hence
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World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington‚ D.C. killing nearly 3‚000 people. Later that day‚ President George W. Bush released a statement to the public describing the acts that occurred‚ the steps that were being taken to return communities to peace‚ and the steps the government was taking to retaliate against the people that committed this heinous act. President Bush explained the horrifying events‚ and then reassured the public that his administration would be unfazed by the
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in speech‚ Pearl Harbor Speech address the nation about the attack on pearl harbor from japan. Roosevelt’s purpose is to inform the nation about the attack and address the feelings of those who lost loved ones. He adopts a comforting but stern tone in order to stray the nation away from japanese empire. Roosevelt begins his speech of the Pearl Harbor address by acknowledging that the attack had nothing to do with any issues with japan from america.“The united
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Introduction: The purpose of this paper will be to examine the extent in which capital punishment is allowed in the United States. Since early colonial America‚ the death penalty has been a major issue of debate among the public. Highly contested topics‚ beginning with the questionable morality of such a punishment and growing into more sophisticated arguments relating to the Eighth Amendment and race‚ have led to numerous United States Supreme Court cases looking to determine the extent in which
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In this weeks module I learned about the eighth amendment and what it entails in this country. The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail‚ excessive fines‚ or cruel and unusual punishments. That being said the founding fathers set this right into the Bill of Rights because of the cruel punishments the king of England had set in place in Great Britain. To live back then was crazy. The king could sentence you to execution without
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The 8th Habit By Stephen R. Covey Dr. Maha Hafez Book Review By Khaled Abdelfattah Group 31D The 8th Habit…is about seeing and harnessing the power of a third dimension to the 7 Habits that meets the central challenge of the new Knowledge Worker Age. This 8th Habit is to find your voice and help others find theirs.” Modern Bloodletting Under the old approach‚ employees experience a great deal of pain and frustration at every company‚ no matter how successful. Fortunately
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Ferdinand Edralin Marcos was born 11 September 1917‚ in the town of Sarrat‚ Ilocos Norte to Mariano Marcos and Josefa Edralin.[2] He was baptized into the Philippine Independent Church.[3] According to the family’s oral history‚ the original surname was Quidit‚ and their Ilokano stock had some Han Chinese and Japanese admixture.[citation needed] Marcos once claimed that one of his forefathers was a "15th century Chinese pirate." This pirate is the well-known Limahong or Lin Feng in China. Rumors
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Evaluation of a president Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28‚ 1856 in Staunton‚ Virginia‚ was the third of four children to grow up in a Presbyterian minister family. In 1873 Wilson was admitted to Davidson college With the desire of preparing himself for the ministry‚ Woodrow Wilson enrolled at the college of New Jersey in 1875‚ where the desire of the ministry came to an end once he discovered his interest in History‚ he entered the law University of Virginia in 1879 but his ill
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records‚ storing‚ filing and retrieval of data. The Pamantasan ng Montalban has increased in student`s population and at the same time‚ the number of works of the registrar and student`s grades to be processed has also increased. One of the responsibilities of the registrar office is to keep the student`s grades data secured for their records and purposes. The Municipal government of Montalban in consortium with the Department of Education‚ worked hand-in-hand to establish public elementary and
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